{"id":93158,"date":"2025-10-22T00:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93158\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:24:10","slug":"suppression-lapses-for-zac-cochrane-cope-accused-of-murdering-joseph-walsh-in-new-lynn-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93158\/","title":{"rendered":"Suppression lapses for Zac Cochrane-Cope, accused of murdering Joseph Walsh in New Lynn, Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities have not disclosed how Walsh was injured or how the two knew each other. Cochrane-Cope was at the scene when police took him into custody. <\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice investigate the scene at a New Lynn residence where a man died on October 6, 2025. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n

After Cochrane-Cope\u2019s arrest, acting Detective Inspector Simon Harrison said police were not seeking anyone else.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would like to reassure the community that this appears to be an isolated incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

During today\u2019s brief administrative hearing, which lasted less than four minutes, Justice Mathew Downs thanked the crowded gallery for their quiet attendance. <\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice and paramedics were called to the New Lynn address at 11.53am on October 6. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

He set a trial date for November next year. <\/p>\n

Cochrane-Cope remains in custody, awaiting trial. <\/p>\n

Craig Kapitan<\/a> is an Auckland-based journalist covering courts and justice. He joined the Herald in 2021 and has reported on courts since 2002 in three newsrooms in the US and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have not disclosed how Walsh was injured or how the two knew each other. Cochrane-Cope was at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1117,74,9526,51,69482,42834,2082,1874,42,78,53733,69480,23300,4275,15360,10136,117,43,1118,675,32035,13618,40,38,41,39,52690,540,69481],"class_list":["post-93158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accused","tag-after","tag-another","tag-auckland","tag-cochranecope","tag-dying","tag-for","tag-found","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-joseph","tag-lapses","tag-lynn","tag-murder","tag-murdering","tag-named","tag-new","tag-news","tag-of","tag-police","tag-residence","tag-suppression","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-walsh","tag-where","tag-zac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}